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AP Interview: Okinawa leader wants Americans to stop US base The bicultural, newly elected governor of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa plans to visit the United States with a message to the American people: Stop building a disputed military base and build peace instead. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2ETv81W

Pakistan acquits Christian woman facing death for blasphemy Pakistan's top court on Wednesday acquitted a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in 2010 on blasphemy charges, a landmark ruling that could ignite mass protests or violence by hard-line Islamists. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2OfC60L

Royals Harry and Meghan name kiwi birds 'gift' and 'sneeze' Prince Harry and wife Meghan examined the navel, nostrils and whiskers on New Zealand's flightless kiwi bird and got to name two tiny chicks on the final day of their 16-day tour of the South Pacific. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2SwcUq1

Migrants to rest, hope to win mass transport to Mexico City Thousands of Central American migrants in a caravan traveling through Mexico planned to rest at least a day or longer in the southern city of Juchitan beginning Wednesday, hoping to organize mass transport northward after days of hard walking in tropical temperatures that have left them about 900 miles from the nearest U.S. border crossing. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2zftVvI

Crashed Lion Air jet possibly found off Indonesia Indonesian military officials say the Lion Air jet that crashed Monday minutes after takeoff may have been found in the Java Sea.  via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2RkToLM

Who is funding the migrant caravans from Central America? Guatemalan Secretary of Strategic Intelligence Mario Duarte believes the caravans are receiving funds from leftist countries in Latin America. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2qlE0TM

Adventurer digs out of New Zealand avalanche; 2 guides die A well-known adventurer dug herself out of an avalanche on a New Zealand mountain Wednesday morning, while two guides climbing with her died. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2DcCdsD

Brazil's anti-corruption judge considers joining Bolsonaro The judge at the center of Brazil's sprawling investigation into kickbacks to politicians said Tuesday he would consider joining the Cabinet of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro if invited. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2JsmBBv

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Thousands of police officers guarded the world's biggest statue ahead of its inauguration by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, anticipating protests by angry locals displaced by the enormous figure. Indian authorities have planned a spectacular opening of the 182-metre (600-foot) tall tribute to Indian independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, with Air Force jets and helicopters to shower flowers on the statue during a flypast. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2OWxlhL

The pop singer was joined by Norman Fucking Rockwell producer Jack Antonoff. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2RpXguN

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Filmmaker reveals it took only one line in Kathy Bates's "Misery" audition before he hired her for an Oscar-winning role. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2zghhwv

WWF director general Marco Lambertini tells AFP what went wrong and what's at stake. "We have always taken nature for granted. Humans evolved for two million years in a nature that was abundant, rich, dominant. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2qjA1ah

Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned Tuesday. From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone -- fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- were wiped out by human activity, according to WWF's "Living Planet" report, based on an ongoing survey of more than 4,000 species spread over 16,700 populations scattered across the globe. "The situation is really bad, and it keeps getting worse," WWF International director general Marco Lambertini told AFP. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2AAVhOE

After 17 years of fighting grinding counterinsurgencies in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is shifting its gaze. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2zerpGe

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay directed the film that opened the Smithsonian's National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., back in 2016, and now the 13th  and Selma helmer is aiming for another type of history with a documentary about Prince for Netflix. "Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the senses," the Oscar-nominated filmmaker told Deadline tonight of the Purple Rain star who died in April 2016. "He was like no other," DuVernay added… from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2Q55w39

First, “The Voice” poached Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson. Then Keith Urban was a mentor. Now ex-“Idol” judge Mariah is this week’s adviser. I’m convinced “The Voice” is just trolling “Idol” at this point. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2Joo77Z

The star shared a photo from set to celebrate working with the 'crazy talented actress.' from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2AzoLwp

A former aide to President Donald Trump ran into a wall of opposition on a CNN from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2zb9IXY

Robert Bowers, the man accused of shooting 11 worshipers to death at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday, sat stony-faced and mostly silent before a U.S. magistrate judge, who ordered him held without bond in the deadliest attack ever on America's Jewish community. The onetime truck driver, who frequently posted anti-Semitic material online and was described by neighbors as a loner, was charged with 29 federal felony counts and could face the death penalty if convicted. The bloodshed heightened a national debate over Trump's inflammatory political rhetoric, which his critics say has contributed to fomenting a surge in right-wing extremism in the United States. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2EO4rLR

Here's the latest news on the midterm elections on Nov. 6, 2018. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2P3mZgd

Pros and celeb dancers prepare for Halloween Night in the ballroom. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2PuvsIu

TECUN UMAN, Guatemala (AP) — Hundreds of Central Americans following in the footsteps of a thousands-strong migrant caravan making its way toward the U.S. border crossed a river from Guatemala into Mexico on Monday, defying a heavy Federal Police presence deployed to patrol that country's southern frontier. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2CQ6ah4

Women who want to bear children in their 30s and 40s often face a dilemma regarding how much time to wait between pregnancies. Doctors often advise they wait 18 to 24 months. A study Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), based on 150,000 pregnancies in Canada from 2004 to 2014, concludes that waiting less than a year between pregnancies raises the risks, regardless of a woman's age. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2qh9vOV

The Defense Department says it's sending 5,200 active duty troops to "harden" the southern border against a migrant caravan making its way through Mexico. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2JnUAen

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Diocese of Buffalo declined to address details of a television report where diocesan insiders called for the bishop's resignation Monday, saying he hadn't done enough when confronted with reports of clergy sexual misconduct. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260727 https://ift.tt/2zePkVV

Chinese intelligence officers conspired with hackers and company insiders to break into private companies' computer systems and steal information on a turbo fan engine used in commercial jetliners, according to a U.S. indictment unsealed on Tuesday. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260657 https://ift.tt/2qlEv0g

Efforts to decide self-ruled Taiwan's future by "other than peaceful means" are a grave concern to the United States, a senior American diplomat said on Wednesday, amid renewed tension between China and the island it considers a wayward province. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260657 https://ift.tt/2qlIYA2

Indonesia sent divers on Wednesday to scour the sea around the crash site of an aircraft with 189 people aboard, after picking up a signal searchers believe reveals the plane's location in waters east of the capital, Jakarta. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260657 https://ift.tt/2PDRiJT

Indonesia sent divers on Wednesday to scour the sea around the crash site of an aircraft with 189 people aboard, after picking up a signal searchers believe reveals the plane's location in waters east of the capital, Jakarta. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8260657 https://ift.tt/2Q685Sx